Welcome back to another week of this week in Royal History.

I'm your host, Rebecca Larson.

This week, we travel through time all over the place.

But we start out with Queen Victoria and end with King Henry the 7th.

The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

January.

In the northern hemisphere, we're experiencing winter.

The long, dark, and cold winter months are at their deepest effect right now.

We go to work in the dark and head home in the dark.

And today I learned that the third Monday in January is actually the worst for mood.

I think that I saw that on Twitter, so who knows if it's even true or not.

Now, I also don't know if that's only meant for people who live in the northern hemisphere,

or would it also be for our friends in the southern hemisphere?

It seems more likely than northern.

Today, in the Upper Midwest, I'm experiencing a balmy, yes, where I live, this is balmy,

24 degrees Fahrenheit, while in yes, where I live, this is balmy, 24 degrees Fahrenheit.

While in Melbourne, Australia, their high today is 74 degrees Fahrenheit.

And in London, it's about 42 degrees Fahrenheit.

I have a point here.

The weather before and after the birth of the future Queen Victoria had been bleak, which is an indication that the little ice age, which we've recently

discussed, was still in effect. The winters were recorded as unusually cold, marking a negative 23 degrees Celsius, which

would be negative 11 degrees Fahrenheit.

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